"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
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"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
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"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
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"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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